The Economic Collapse

If everything is going to be just fine, why are thousands of stores closing all over the country?  So far this year, the total amount of retail space that has been permanently closed has surpassed 120 million square feet.  We have never seen anything like this before.  Store closings spiked during the early days of the pandemic, but in 2025 stores are being permanently shuttered at an even faster pace.  In fact, during the first six months of this year 5,822 store closures were recorded… (Read More...)

We have never seen a year quite like this.  I wrote about “the year of the flood” on July 15th and July 27th, and now I am writing about it again.  If I haven’t convinced you by now that something really weird is going on, I don’t know what to tell you.  Record-breaking storms and record-breaking floods just keep hitting us again and again all over the world.  During this past week, it is Asia that has been really taking a beating.  Sometimes when I write articles about what is taking place on the other side of the world, a certain percentage of my readers tune out, but please don’t do that because what I have to share today is very important. (Read More...)

Why have there been so many large earthquakes in recent weeks?  This is something that people on social media are really buzzing about right now.  And I am certainly glad that they are buzzing about it, because what we have been witnessing is not even close to normal.  We really are in the early chapters of an extremely apocalyptic chapter in human history, and people need to hear the truth. (Read More...)

Are you old enough to remember when you could buy a really nice house for less than $50,000? Today, the average price of a home in the United States is more than half a million dollars. Of course everything else has become dramatically more expensive as well. I just asked Google, and I was told that the average cost of health insurance for a single person in the United States was just $2,655 in the year 2000. That was for an entire year!  Our standard of living has been collapsing for a long time, but at first most people didn’t realize what was happening. But now things are so bad that YouTube and TikTok are filled with thousands of videos of normal people complaining about the cost of living. Unfortunately, I am entirely convinced that things are only going to get tougher as economic conditions continue to deteriorate all around us. (Read More...)

If you have applied for hundreds of jobs and still find yourself out of work, you are certainly not alone. In many industries, it is absolutely brutal out there right now. U.S. employers have been laying off hundreds of thousands of workers in 2025, and there is immense competition for any good jobs that do happen to be available. So if you have a good job that you highly value, I would hold on to it as tightly as you can, because you don’t want to end up among the desperate hordes that are scrambling for work in this very harsh economic environment. For example, a 46-year-old woman in Florida that was laid off last September has applied for 900 jobs without any success at all… (Read More...)

Have the official employment numbers finally achieved peak fakeness?  We just got another perfect example of why so many of us have completely lost faith in the fake figures that government bureaucrats have been feeding us.  For months we were told that employment was booming, but now we are being told that just the opposite is happening.  So what is the truth?  If you want the truth, you need to look at the numbers coming in from private sources, because the government numbers are a load of bunk. (Read More...)

It was nice while it lasted.  Nations all over the globe had until August 1st to agree to a trade deal with the Trump administration.  Some of them made deals, but most of them did not.  Those that did not will now be hit by a “wall of tariffs”, with individual rates being determined at the discretion of the White House.  So how will this “wall of tariffs” affect the U.S. economy?  Ultimately, it is going to take some time for this drama to fully play out.  The products that will be in our stores this month were brought into our country well before deadline day.  The products that will be brought into our country after deadline day will start showing up in our stores during the months ahead, and that is when we could start experiencing price hikes on certain things. (Read More...)

Oops, they did it again.  Even though the housing market has been in a depressed state for an extended period of time and even though economic conditions are slowing down all over the country, the Federal Reserve has once again refused to lower interest rates.  What in the world are they thinking?  I certainly share President Trump’s frustration with the Fed.  Central banks all over the world have been cutting rates, but our central bank just won’t budge.  Have Fed officials gone completely insane, or are they purposely trying to destroy the U.S. economy? (Read More...)